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About this "your software" mindset
This is a response to the "your software" mindset I have seen many times here and elsewhere. I will quote a statement from a real occurrence (the context does not matter). My emphasis:
You should appreciate people using your software and taking the time to report bugs.
This statement has bothered me when I read it, because it misses completely the big picture.
your software
uBlock Origin is licensed GPLv3. If you click the "Fork" button at the top of a project's Github page, this software becomes yours.
Try it.
So now that this software is yours, re-consider this part of the sentence:
taking the time
Now that the software is yours, what apparently you saw as some sort of favor ("taking the time"), was actually a favor to yourself in retrospect, and also in retrospect, you hopefully can now appreciate the huge amount of time spent by others on what is now your software.
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